Software Defined Networking (SDN) has seen a lot of uptick in momentum since VMware acquired Nicira last summer, three months after Google announced that they were using OpenFlow to optimize their internal backbone. In this post we look at "SDN" support in CloudStack.First, let's try to define SDN in a short paragraph. It is, was it spells out to be (like the french adage: "c'est comme le Port-Salut c'est écrit dessus" :)) a way to configure the network using software. This means that the network definition (routing, switching), optimization (load-balancing, firewall, etc) becomes a software problem with SDN. If you have seen the wikipedia page